Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... son. As stated above, Mrs. Thompson died in 1896, and subsequently Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Willie Demovillee of Nashville. He is an elder of the First Presbyterian church of Nashville and a liberal contributor to its good works. JOHN M. GAUT, a prominent lawyer of Nashville, Tenn., was born in Cleveland, Bradley county of that state, in 1841. His father, John C. Gaut, was a prominent lawyer, judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Tennessee for twelve years, and served several times as a special judge of the supreme court. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1865 that reorganized the state government. As a member of the committee on resolutions in that convention, he brought in a minority report opposing the provision disfranchising those who supported the Confederate States government during the Civil war. In. 1866 he allied himself with the Conservative party and for two years was the chairman of its state executive committee. He died at the age of eighty-two years. John M. Gaut was educated in the schools of Cleveland and at Rutgers college, New Brunswick, M. J., from which he graduated in 1866 with the degree of A. B., and where three years later he took the degree of A. M. He then read law in the office of Caruthers & Gaut, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1867. He became a member of the law firm of Caruthers, Gaut & Caruthers, which continued until 1868, when it was dissolved and was succeeded by the firm of J. C. & J. M. Gaut. The latter firm continued until a few years before the death of the father in 1895, since which time the son has practiced alone. Judge Gaut was, in 1873, elected a member of the city council of Nashville from the fifth ward, then the principal ward of the city. He was in 1881...
